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The New Rhetoric (NR) approach to genre analysis was initiated by Miller (1984). Genre, according to Miller (1984, p. 163), refers to ‘a conventional category of discourse based in large-scale typification of rhetorical action; as action, it acquires meaning from situation and from the social context in which that situation arose’. This view of genre as social action was adopted by Bazerman (1988) in his study of the changing nature of 100 experimental scientific articles over the period 1665–1800. This study was later extended by Berkenkotter and Huckin (1995) in their study of 350 research articles in physics, biology, and general science over 45 years from 1944 to 1989.
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Pho, P.D. (2013). Approaches to Genre Analysis. In: Authorial Stance in Research Articles. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137032782_2
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